The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 24

In a few minutes they heard the pattering of tiny feet, and many of the small gray mice came running up to her.

Who acts: mice, many · What happens: hear, come, run up · To what, where: pattering, Lion

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mice, many), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 minutes	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 minutes	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 minutes	amod
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heard	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pattering	det
8	pattering	pattering	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 feet	case
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 feet	amod
11	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pattering	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 came	cc
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 came	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	19 mice	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mice	det
17	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 mice	amod
18	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mice	compound
19	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 many	nmod
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	conj
21	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 came	advcl
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 running	compound:prt
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 running	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	hear	past	mice = mouse	the pattering of tiny feet		minute	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer pattering=Stimulus
2	come	past	many of the small gray mice				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	run up	gerund	many of the small gray mice not said here		Lion		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to she=Result

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Project Gutenberg book 55 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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